Who watches the Watchmen?

"Shouldn't recording your own police interrogation be a constitutionally protected right, like the right to an attorney? If not, why not?"

Many privacy and civil liberty advocates (shouldn't this be everyone of us?) have protested the increasing amount of surveillance in society. Everything from "traffic cameras" to federal wiretaps have grown with our apparent hunger for increased law enforcement and security. We have forgotten that power granted to a government agency is rarely given up. While our government agencies are supposed to be working for us, to protect us, invariably, the respective agencies always, always, act as de facto "rulers" that are above the same accountability expected of us. The legislature and police forget that the primary purpose of their agencies is to uphold and protect the rights of the citizen, not just be enforcers of government policy.

I say that if an entity has the right to record us, we have the right to record them. While private citizens should have a reasonable right of privacy, no public entity, or their agents, should be exempt from recording or surveillance.